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Released
  
3 May 2005

Artist
  
The Go-Betweens

Label
  
Yep Roc Records

Length
  
65:4

Release date
  
3 May 2005

Genre
  
Rock music

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Recorded
  
November 2004 – January 2005

Producer
  
Mark Wallis & Dave Ruffy

Similar
  
The Go-Betweens albums, Rock music albums

Oceans apart


Oceans Apart is the ninth and final album by The Go-Betweens, released in 2005. All the songs were written by Grant McLennan and Robert Forster. The album was recorded at the Good Luck Studios in London between November 2004 through to January 2005, except for "Boundary Rider" which was recorded at The White Room Recording Studio in Brisbane.

Contents

Details

The live recordings on the bonus disc were recorded at The Barbican Concert Hall, London on 27 June 2004.

The album won the 2005 "Adult Contemporary Album" award at the 2005 ARIA music awards.

Many reviews and fans complained of the aggressively loud and distorted mastering of the initial release by Jon Astley to the extent that Lo-Max offered to exchange the original pressing for a newer release where the problem is less evident.

Forster later claimed "Darlinghurst Nights" was the song he was most pleased with writing throughout his career. He said "I loved writing the lyric, and I could just get all these people in - Frank Brunetti, who used to be in Died Pretty and was a music journalist on RAM; Clinton Walker is in it. It's a song that no-one else could have written but me - for better or worse."

Track listing

  1. "Here Comes a City" – 3:25
  2. "Finding You" – 4:02
  3. "Born to a Family" – 3:08
  4. "No Reason to Cry" – 3:53
  5. "Boundary Rider" – 2:45
  6. "Darlinghurst Nights" – 6:18
  7. "Lavender" – 3:09
  8. "The Statue" – 4:25
  9. "This Night's for You" – 4:25
  10. "The Mountains Near Dellray" – 3:28

Bonus disc

  1. "People Say" (Live) – 3:31
  2. "He Lives My Life" (Live) – 4:03
  3. "The Wrong Road" (Live) – 5:17
  4. "Bye Bye Pride" (Live) – 4:54
  5. "When People Are Dead" (Live) – 4:45
  6. "Streets of Your Town" (Live) – 3:36

Go-Betweens

  • Robert Forster – vocals, guitars, piano, organ
  • Grant McLennan – vocals, guitars
  • Adele Pickvance – bass, keyboards, backing vocals
  • Glenn Thompson – drums, keyboards, guitar, backing vocals

    • Additional musicians

  • Tom Rees-Roberts – flugelhorn
  • Trevor Miles – trombone
  • David Powell – tuba
  • Duncan Lamont – clarinet
  • Dave Ruffy – keyboards, percussion

    • Songs

    1Here Comes a City3:25
    2Finding You4:02
    3Born to a Family3:08

    References

    Oceans Apart Wikipedia
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